Quality Improvement Council

 

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Regional and Statewide Quality Improvement Councils - Primary Purpose and Rationale

The role of the Quality Improvement (QI) Councils is to review and analyze data for developing service improvement targets and tracking progress.  Data sources that will be available to the QI Councils including the data collected by Delmarva, such as, the National Core Indicator (NCI) surveys, Person Centered Reviews (PCR), Quality Enhancement Provider Reviews (QEPR), and other data sets. Because of their unique positions within the system, members of the QI Councils may identify gaps and problems with existing services and most importantly, will then use this data, and what it identifies, to make system changes at local, regional and state levels.  It is very important the QI Councils understand they will not be considered just advisory councils that make only suggestions for change.  The QI Councils will be an active partner in future changes to the services offered through the Georgia Office of Developmental Disabilities (Office of DD).  The QI Councils will be partners with the regional and state offices to make that change happen.  

Geographic challenges make it difficult to maintain consistent statewide representation on a QI Council.  However, representatives from all areas across the state are essential in order to obtain an appropriate perspective on all issues that may need to be resolved.    Therefore, there will be one statewide and five regional QI Councils, allowing all areas of the state to be equally represented.